Barbara Fullerton, Manager of Library Services Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP
Sabrina I. Pacifici, a law librarian in Washington D.C. for over two decades, is the founder, editor, publisher, web manager of LLRX.com, and the author of beSpacific, the weblog on law and technology news.
[Editor’s Note: An annotated version of this bibliography will appear in an upcoming issue of LLRX]
This bibliography includes links to 73 websites that Barbara and Sabrina presented during their July 13 program at the 2004 AALL Annual Conference in Boston. These sites represent a broad but selective range of resources on topics that include business and corporate data, global news, search engines, guides to international and comparative law, country profiles and statistics, locating people, businesses, places and useful services around the world, banking resources, and data on terrorism and security issues. For the most part, the sites we chose are free, although several may have a fee-based component and/or require registration to obtain access to the full complement of data available.
We had a great time compiling this information, and hope that you will find this guide helpful. Enjoy!
Foreign/Comparative Law
LLRX Resource Center on International Law //www.llrx.com/international_law.htm LLRX Resource Center on Comparative/Foreign Law //www.llrx.com/comparative_and_foreign_law.htm Search Engines, Global News Portals, Business and Financial Data
Search Engine Colossus – International Directory of Search Engines http://www.searchenginecolossus.com Kartoo Meta Search Engine http://www.kartoo.com Yahoo! UK & Ireland Search http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search/ukie/yp/index.htm l InfoSpace (Canada) http://www.infospace.com/index_ylw_ca.htm Yahoo! Canada Business Finder http://ca.yp.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! International Finance Center http://biz.yahoo.com/ifc/ Onlinenewspapers.com http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ News Search Portal http://www.newssearchportal.com/ World News Network http://www.worldnews.com European Business Directory Yellow Pages http://www.europages.com/home.html Infobel World – Telephone Directories http://www.infobel.com/teldir/default.asp World Bank – Global Banking Law Database http://www.gbld.org/index.aspx Federal Reserve Financial Services: E-Payments Routing Directory http://www.fededirectory.frb.org/search.cfm Office of Foreign Assets Control – U.S. Treasury http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/eotffc/ofac/sdn/ More News Sites, Finding People, Businesses, Places and Specialized Services
Middle East Business and Financial News http://www.ameinfo.com Fone Finder – Search for USA/Canadian telephone numbers http://www.fonefinder.net/index.php Mappy – Road Guide Around the World http://www.mappy.com ATM Locator http://www.mastercard.com/atmlocator/index.jsp?page=home_airport LookUpUK – Resource Centre for finding that Lost Friend
or Relative in the UKhttp://www.lookupuk.com/main.html SearchBug People Finder – Landline or Cell Number http://www.searchbug.com/peoplefinder/landline-or-cellphone.aspx International White Page Phone Directory http://freeality.whitepages.com/intl_sites.pl International Calling Plans http://www.allworldphone.com Visa and Embassy Info for all countries http://www.embpage.org Searchable Database for All the World’s Embassies http://www.embassyworld.com Canada’s Business and Consumer Site http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/engdoc/main.html ProFusion Search – Deep web meta-search engine for company/corporate data http://www.profusion.com/default.asp?agt=0!4 Internet Archive – digital library of Internet sites http://www.archive.org/ International Voltage-Finder Search Engine http://www.escapeartist.com/global/voltage_form.html News on Financial Fraud, Money Laundering & White Collar Crime http://www.offshorebusiness.com Finding More Information About Business Scandals http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/scandals/find.html European Business Directory http://www.europages.com/home.html
Who Runs What
Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/chiefs/ Rulers of the World http://rulers.org Public Records, Government Data, Country & Corporate Information
Visa and Embassy Info for all countries http://www.embpage.org Searchable Database for All the World’s Embassies http://www.embassyworld.com Canadian Property Searches http://www.journalismnet.com/people/canadapersons.htm The Scannery – Investor Focused Search Engine http://www.thescannery.com/ Public Records Online Directory – State Records http://www.netronline.com/public_records.htm NationMaster.com – statistical info http://www.nationmaster.com Search Systems Free Public Records Directory http://www.searchsystems.net/
International Investment Portal & Research Centerhttp://www.site-by-site.com Portico – publicly available information http://indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/home.html Offshore Investment Havens http://www.escapeartist.com/ Corporate Information http://www.corporateinformation.com CountryReport.org http://www.countryreports.org The National Archives (UK) http://www.documentsonline.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ globalEdge Company Directories http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/GR_CompanyDirectories.asp INFOMINE – Government Information – scholarly Internet resource collections http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?category=govpub Political Database of the Americas http://www.georgetown.edu/pdba/english.html Military Search http://shopping.netledger.com/app/site/site.nl/site.ACCT115030/mode.welcome/sc.l/.f National Archives – Access to Archival Database System http://www.archives.gov/aad/index.html CAROL – Company Reports (Europe) http://www.carolworld.com/ Portals, Websites for International Research
LC Portals to the World http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html Health, Nutrition, and Population Statistics http://devdata.worldbank.org/hnpstats/ globalEdge – global business knowledge http://globaledge.msu.edu/ EIU.com – country intelligence http://www.eiu.com ESIL – Electronic System for International Law http://www.eisil.org/ International Terrorist and Guerrilla Groups http://www.specialoperations.com/Terrorism/ Santa Clara Journal for International Law http://www.scu.edu/scjil/
Translating Documents
todaytranslations UK http://www.todaytranslations.com/index.php/fuseaction/home.content/page/home Translation Wizard http://www.faganfinder.com/translate/ Expert Witness Databases, Campaign Finance Info, Professional Licenses, Journalist Resources
Jurispro – Expert Witness Directory http://jurispro.com Smoking Gun – legal documents in the news http://thesmokinggun.com/ Boards of professional and occupational licensure in North America http://www.clearhq.org/boards.htm Better Business Bureau http://search.bbb.org/search.html Political Money Line http://www.fecinfo.com Money in Politics Data http://www.opensecrets.org/ Sites for state races: Data Sources, Specific State Sites http://www.campaignfinance.org/linksstate.html Journalism.net – Finding people, papers, news http://www.journalismnet.com/ CyberJournalist.net http://www.cyberjournalist.net International Trade Unions : LabourStart http://www.laborstart.org WatchThatPage – monitoring changes on websites of interest http://www.watchthatpage.com Traffic Engineering and Transportation Engineering Search Directory http://www.trafficlinq.com